What could Connecting Science offer?

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Permalink Reply by Oli Pescott on December 5, 2008 at 2:25pm

Hi Clare

It would be nice to have a list of sources of material that could be useful for talks/demonstrations etc. For example, I would particularly recommend the journals School Science Review and the American Biology Teacher for simple experiments and topics useful for communicating science to the public.

Oli

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Permalink Reply by Jon Copley on December 6, 2008 at 9:05am

Oli Pescott said:

Hi Clare

It would be nice to have a list of sources of material that could be useful for talks/demonstrations etc. For example, I would particularly recommend the journals School Science Review and the American Biology Teacher for simple experiments and topics useful for communicating science to the public.

Oli

Hi Oli,

Great idea and exactly what Connecting Science is for. So I have started a Discussion in the "Direct Engagement" Group for people to add their sources. If you'd like to get things started by perhaps posting links to those sources that you find useful, that would be great!

Best wishes,

Jon

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Permalink Reply by Claire Ainsworth on January 1, 2009 at 1:13pm

Hi Oli--thanks for the suggestions. As Jon said, we've started a discussion and I'll collect a list of useful resources and links and post a list on the main page of the relevant group.

Bets wishes

Claire

Jon Copley said:

Oli Pescott said:

Hi Clare

It would be nice to have a list of sources of material that could be useful for talks/demonstrations etc. For example, I would particularly recommend the journals School Science Review and the American Biology Teacher for simple experiments and topics useful for communicating science to the public.

Oli

Hi Oli,

Great idea and exactly what Connecting Science is for. So I have started a Discussion in the "Direct Engagement" Group for people to add their sources. If you'd like to get things started by perhaps posting links to those sources that you find useful, that would be great!

Best wishes,

Jon

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Permalink Reply by David Dewar on January 1, 2009 at 1:59pm

Particularly from my point of view as organiser of a particular branch of the Café Scientifique network, it would be useful to know if members have topics/presentations about which they would care to speak and engage with the public. If such a list could be up-to-date (and I do understand how difficult that is) and geographically organised, it would be a great boon.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Copley on January 5, 2009 at 11:23am

Hi David - I think some sort of voluntary register of folks here, indicating areas they'd be happy to talk about and where they are based, could be just the kind of thing that connectingscience could offer... I'm about to disappear to sea for two months, but no doubt Claire will be on the case!

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Permalink Reply by Claire Ainsworth on January 6, 2009 at 3:59pm

Hi David,
This sounds like a great idea. As you mentioned, a list can be tricky to keep properly updated as it involves constantly chasing people and finding out what they are up to. One way of getting around this could be to use the Groups function on this network.

All you would need to to is form your own group (click on the Groups tag and then on the "Add a group" button), configure the group to your liking, and then start inviting people to join the group (or indeed, Connecting Science). Individuals would then be responsible for maintaining the info on their pages (interests,availability etc) , and might be able to suggest other interested colleagues to you. If the group grows quickly (hopefully it will!), we could subdivide it into geographical locations.

What do you think? Feel free to message me and we can discuss logistics etc

Claire



David Dewar said:

Particularly from my point of view as organiser of a particular branch of the Café Scientifique network, it would be useful to know if members have topics/presentations about which they would care to speak and engage with the public. If such a list could be up-to-date (and I do understand how difficult that is) and geographically organised, it would be a great boon.

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